A fish tank filled with 50 goldfish - equal to the number of vaccine injections mandated for children up to age 18 is displayed at a booth at the Lodi Grape Festival in Lodi on Friday, September 18, 2015.
Randall Benton
rbenton@sacbee.com

A fish tank filled with 50 goldfish - equal to the number of vaccine injections mandated for children up to age 18 is displayed at a booth at the Lodi Grape Festival in Lodi on Friday, September 18, 2015.
Randall Benton
rbenton@sacbee.com

AM Alert: California vaccine bill opponents reach their deadline

If you spent any time in the state Capitol from April to June, you remember the epic struggle over a bill making vaccination a precondition of enrolling in California schools. The floods of red-shirted volunteers, the marathon hearings, appearances by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: it was one of the year’s defining debates.

But if they do qualify, it’s unclear where they’d get the money needed to run a statewide ballot campaign, particularly since it seems likely some heavyweight institutional supporters of SB 277 would spend to defend. We’ll soon know if things will advance to that point.

NEST EGG: A few years after carrying legislation to create state-sponsored retirement plans for private employees, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, will be talking about the new state board’s investment products during a briefing organized by the Aspen Institute. He’ll be joined by investment experts and U.S. Department of the Treasury official J. Mark Iwry. Starting at 9 a.m. at the CalSTRS building in West Sacramento.